174 pagesThis manuscript reports the results of an experimental study aiming to understand the convective patterns and compaction phenomenon in horizontally vibrated granular media. The granular material is a dry sand representative of no cohesive granular media. The conducted work have evidenced that, when a granular matter is submitted to horizontal vibrations with a fixed frequency and an increasing acceleration, it splits into an upper fluid-like zone and a bottom solid-like zone when the acceleration threshold of fluidization is reached. Two counter-rotated convection rolls, with thickness increasing with acceleration, are observed in the upper zone. A quantitative study, undertaken principally at a frequency of 50 Hz, was based on PIV...